Hajj Mu’min has narrated about the late righteous scholar, Sayyid Hashim. the Prayer leader of Masjid Sardzak that one day he mounted the pulpit after congregational prayer and spoke about the necessity of presence of mind during prayers. He also mentioned:

In this same Masjid, my respected father, Sayyid Ali Akbar Yazdi was leading congregational prayers and I was also present when a person, who looked like a villager, entered and crossing the rows went straight ahead and stood right behind my father. People of the congregation were much consternated, for according to them the place he had taken should have been occupied by intellectuals and scholars, but that man paid no heed. After that, in the second unit (Rakat) he changed his intention to solitary and finished his prayer and then sat down at the same place. Then he opened his food packet and started eating leavened bread.

When our prayers ended, everyone objected to this behavior and condemned him, but he did not respond. My father inquired what the matter was. They said: This ignorant fellow joined the first row; then changed his intention to solitary and now he is eating something. My father asked him why he acted like that. He said: Do you want me to tell you confidentially or shall I explain it in public?

My father said: Explain it publicly. He said: I came to this Masjid to join you in prayers and gain divine rewards, but during Surah Hamd I realized that you have gone out of the prayer and were thinking that since your age makes it very difficult to come to the Masjid on foot everyday you were in urgent need of a mount. Then you reached the market of donkey sellers and selected a donkey. In the second un t you thought about his feeding and place of keeping it. At last I was fed up and could not accompany you further. So I changed my intention to solitary and finished the prayer on my own.

After explaining this, he gathered his things and set out from there. My father felt very sorry and slapping his forehead said: What a great man! Call him, I want something from him. People went out to look for him, but he had disappeared and was never seen again.

Hence we should never look down on any believer and never object to any of his acts, which can be interpreted in a lawful way, because it is possible that he apparently may seem ordinary and lowly according to the criterion of the times and by accusing him wrongly we become liable for divine retribution.

It is also possible that a servant of God may perform an act in the right way and another person, by way of correcting him, might make him the target of objection and disappoint him.